Catherine Wolfram

I am an NSF postdoctoral fellow and Gibbs Assistant Professor at Yale University. In May 2024 I graduated from MIT with a PhD in math, advised by Scott Sheffield. Before that, I was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago. I'm interested in various topics related to complex analysis, probability, and geometry. More information can be found in my CV here.

My email address is: catherine.wolfram at yale dot edu. (Note: after January 2025, I will not receive emails sent to my old MIT address.)

Papers

  1. (with Franco Vargas Pallete, Yilin Wang) Epstein curves and holography of the Schwarzian action (2025). [arxiv]
  2. (with Nishant Chandgotia, Scott Sheffield) Large deviations for the 3D dimer model (2023). [arxiv] [pdf]
  3. (with Dragomir Saric, Yilin Wang) Circle homeomorphisms with square summable diamond shears. Int. Math. Res. Not. (IMRN) Vol. 2024, 17 (2024). [arxiv] [pdf]

Talks and travel

Upcoming travel and talks:
  • February 19, 2025. University of Michigan probability seminar, Ann Arbor, MI.
  • April 5, 2025. AMS sectional meeting session on Probability and Combinatorics, Hartford, CT.
  • April 7-11, 2025. Complex Faces, Venice, Italy.
  • April 18, 2025. University of Chicago probability and statistical physics seminar, Chicago, IL.
  • June 16-20, 2025. Perfectly matched perspectives on statistical mechanics, combinatorics and geometry, CIRM, Marseille, France.
  • August 25-29, 2025. Workshop on Universal Teichmüller Theory, Aussois, France.
Some past talks and presentations, including links to slides or recordings. For videos of 3D dimer simulation slices featured in some of my talks, see here.

Teaching

I am not teaching during the 2024-2025 academic year.
  • Fall 2023: recitation leader for 18.600 (probability and random variables).
  • January 2023 (IAP): recitation leader for 18.02A (multivariable calculus).
  • Spring 2022: recitation leader for 18.600 (probability and random variables)
  • Fall 2021: recitation leader for 18.600 (probability and random variables)

Undergrad work

I spent two summers during undergrad at the University of Chicago math REU. The papers I wrote can be found here and here.

Some pictures